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Abstract
Resilience in the face of uncertainty is a universal issue, but of particular concern for small islands where climate change and accelerated sea-level change are current worries. This paper investigates the issues of resilience and uncertainty in the case of prehistoric Malta, which at face value presented a natural environment fraught with many risks. The authors survey these dangers, especially the potential damage to food crops caused by soil erosion, to which the islands of Malta are particularly exposed. The prehistoric inhabitants of the islands nonetheless coped with uncertainty with enormous success as recent new excavations and radiocarbon dating have revealed that the elaborate periods of monument maintenance, for which the Maltese Islands are widely famed, has a duration of some 1200 years.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | World Archaeology |
| Early online date | 27 Sept 2018 |
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| Publication status | Early online date - 27 Sept 2018 |
Keywords
- Malta, resilience, island, MEditerranean, climate, vulnerabilities, soil, environment, Neolithic, Prehistory
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- Island risks and the resilience of a prehistoric civilization
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Interdisciplinary approaches to work on the prehistory of Malta: the Fragsus Project
Malone, C. (Advisor)
24 Oct 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Temple Landscapes: Fragility, change and resilience of Holocene environments in the Maltese Islands.
Malone, C., Stoddart, S., McLaughlin, R., Hunt, C., French, C. & Grima, R., 05 Nov 2020, Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. 569 p. (Fragsus Project Monographs; vol. 1)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Hypogea and the clubhouse: Neolithic Malta's houses of the living and the dead.
Malone, C., McLaughlin, R., Barratt, R. & Parkinson, E. W., 2019, Houses of the dead?: Neolithic Studies Group Seminar papers 17. Barclay, A., Field, D. & Leary, J. (eds.). Oxford: Oxbow, Vol. 17. p. 15-37 23 p. (Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review